Happy Birthday!

William Main Doerflinger

born

7/30/1910
(d Dec 1, 2000)

Buy Shantymen and Shantyboys (reissued as Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman). He was the only person ever to collect "The Leaving of Liverpool" from tradition. Doerflinger was the dean of sea music and one of America's great folk song collectors and scholars. AND, he was a good writer, as well. Don't forget to read the introduction.

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